What is everyone favorite way to attach the cable stake to a DP? Or a 1.5 for a fish stick set? Looking to get some more traps set up. We have been using the split rings from FNT but didn’t know if there was a better way or not?

I use the XL sleep ez hooks from FnT

I don't use DPs anymore but when I did I used cables with those big split ring looking things. On my 1.5's they all have one of those rings. I like them as I wrap that cable around something, slide it on the ring and get on to the next set.

J hook and swivel.

This

Quick link

X3 just add a j-hook through the second hole in the end swivel.

Quick link so I can go from cable to anchor if needed.

I’ve used the quick links before in the small size and they work fine. I’ve used S hooks before too and they worked fine without any bending. I’ve also used j hooks and they work fine. Idk what the best is but for the price the S or J hooks would be best. For easy detach if your moving around a lot then the quick links would be good

Just remember on s-hooks/j-hooks that if you're opening them multiple times, they lose their strength and can cause them to fail. So its best to use new hooks each time or weld them if its going to be a permanent attachment.

I use quick links, just remember to snug them down.

Split rings

Enlighten me in why do you want to be able to switch anchoring types/devices and lengths on these 2 different traps? A stake or a dead man anchor connection for a DP should be almost permanent and a 1.5 coil the same. If you are transferring 1.5's from water to land just watch the sales and buy more traps to cover your situation - 1.5's are as cheap as its been with everyone getting away from coon trapping. If you are trying to elongate your chain with extra cable, get cables with larger end loops and thread them back through that loop. The DP made everyone in the U.S. a coon trapper when it used to take a little knowledge in the 70's to the 90's to have a coon waiting for you in a foot trap. The DP works for shorter tethering coons better than 1.5's for me as coons will kink and twist all cable with any ground cover to make it a short lived extension. My experience. ...............the mike

I’ve got cable on DP’s that’s been on there for 7-8 years and still holding coons. Some properties have a lot of areas where I can cable off to trees or roots. Some properties don’t. Why spend money for traps that may just sit when I can use a quick link and swap what I need?

Wanna -- you have trees near coon locations? Coon spots here are where you find them (and NE is the 2nd LEAST FORESTED STATE IN THE U.S.) ,,,,,,,, which can be a long ways from a suitable tie off tree. And absolutely respectful to conditions in GA ----our coons are a lot bigger than yours. I have hunted some in SC and assume yours are the same size. Our kittens are 14-16 lbs by their first season. with 2 1/2 yr olds pushing 25 lbs. They spend as much or more time on the ground than in a tree here so they will fight capture constantly to get away to some cover. And cable is twisted and kinked after a couple of catches near that cover. I bought my first 100 grizz DP's when they came out at the Nationals in Iowa (2000-2001 ?) and used them with metal stakes on strict land sets the first year. Next year I switched to earth dead-man anchors ( with cable). No comparison in the time savings in our soil as the stakes were faster and more convenient to pull and restake at different locations (no cleaning of tube types or checking cable for fraying I had with the anchors). Plus, the ground frost didn't slow the metal stakes for new sets or pulling like the anchors. I used them from November to Mid January with stakes. Earth anchors were harder to pound and held TOO well for me in the cold frozen conditions. Back to the original question from me --- Why does a person want the convenience to add/subtract length to a coon foot trap (other than a tree hook-up for a DP) ? I must have missed something through the years with my coon trapping (I admit I missed lot in the last 50 years) .......... The (slow learner) mike

Haha, we’re the land of pines!! About the only time I stake for coons is in swampy areas, the rest are just cabled to trees in the bottoms. In swampy areas most of the time I can push in by hand and pull by hand. I haven’t found a coon yet that can pump an anchor, they just pull from side to side and they haven’t gotten a pushed in anchor up yet. When the spot gets too messy just pull the anchor, clean out the bullet in the water, and push back in one way or the other on the trail.
And yeah, I’ve turkey hunted the prairie states and figured coons just stayed along the cottonwood bottoms.
Y’all got those magical earth dwelling animals out there. I could look as far as I could see and see absolutely nothing. Turn my head for few seconds and look back and 15 deer, 4 skunks, and 2 coyotes magically appear!! Took and guy used to seeing only a hundred yards or so a minute to get used to that. I could watch turkeys gobble through optics and count to 3 before I’d hear them.
It was easier/cheaper for me to just make up a bunch of cables for trees and use a quick link to just swap out as needed. Heck, even in the swampy areas most of there’ll be tree roots you can slip the end of the cable under and double the DP back through and use that as an anchor.

This is off subject I beg forgiveness. Here's a picture of a mink I got about 5 yrs ago in a 280 on a beaver slide in a farm pond and a badger I got on my place at a brush pile
. I am including this so you folks can look over my shoulders to the topography (hilly) and land use (very few trees) for a mile or more. The prairie has been converted to corn and soybeans with little pasture or hayland. If a tree (planted as a windbreak or a volunteer) causes a combine to veer off a straight line, it has to go. So the coons here have to adapt to brush piles, bager/beaver holes, vacant farms/buildings and a few remaining cottonwoods along a permanent creek. Even smaller permanent surface creeks and springs are buried and tiled for long distances so a farm implement can drive straight. Cable anchors have their place even here but for a 1.5 or a season long DP,,,, a chain and a metal stake are hard to beat.... .......the mike

For coyotes you are absolutely right. Coon aren't nearly as strong, so reusing a j hook several times is no big deal. I'll toss them when they get bent way out of shape or get soft, but otherwise don't worry about them.

Just j hook to a swivel